The Small R "republicans" on the Newport Beach City Council

I've been complaining of it for a while, Newport Beach has Six of the Seven Council members as "registered" republicans, who truly do not act as Republicans, between the...

• Borrowing to balance the budget,
  
• The City Council telling Newport Beach restaurants what kind of containers they may use,
• The UTTER control of the City Council by the Police and Fire Unions, where City Council candidates PROUDLY TOUT their Union Endorsements,
  
• The building, and BORROWING to build, of a new White Elephant in the Park (City Hall), primarily because they keep hiring and hiring more City Employees, drastically increasing the size of local government.
  
• The City have MORE EMPLOYEES PER RESIDENT than a truly Communist-controlled Irvine, or more than a Democrat-led Huntington Beach. Most glaring example? How about having SEVEN Council members while most EVERY OTHER CITY have only Five.

Out of the Fabulous 6 republicans on the City Council, it takes the only non-Republican Councilwoman Nancy Gardner to make the most Conservative statement to the LA Times when discussing the aforementioned White Elephant,

"The interesting thing about Newport Beach," Gardner says, "is that while we have a lot of money, we also have a lot of fiscal conservatives. There were a lot of people from the beginning who said not only do we not need a new City Hall, we need fewer employees.""

So what's the latest and greatest, the Smoking Ban in public places proposal.

Fortunately, Mayor Ed Selich and Councilwoman Leslie Daigle are firmly against it.

However, the other FIVE (Bureaucrat Don Webb, the newest Republican Mike Henn, DTS, and former Green Party member, Nancy Gardner, slum lord Steve Rosansky, and Keith Curry...KEITH CURRY???) may support the ban.

Keith Curry? Lincoln Club Keith Curry? Conservative Republican Keith Curry? Endorsed by the Republican Party of Orange County Keith Curry? He doesn't outright oppose the ban like Mayor Ed and Councilwoman Leslie?

How do we get the public aware of this issue?

With that said, THANK GOD FOR FRANK MICKADEIT!

Why?

His latest column in the OC Register most adeptly named,

"Newport: most-liberal O.C. city?"

The outrage towards this latest example of Big Brother City Council governance is now spreading a bit and hopefully the thumb will be pressed, and pressed hard to stop it.

And word has it that if this ban is proposed, a Resolution by the Republican Party of Orange County to oppose it and the Censure of the republicans on the City Council who support it will be requested.

Not that this would matter to any of the small Rs, but it may matter to one who likes to tout his Conservative Republican credentials.

And consider this angle as well, which is non-partisan political slanted, this would be a tourism and restaurant business killer too.

Even the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce is expected to come out against the ban with Newport Beach Chamber's CEO Richard Luehrs telling Frank Mickadeit,

"Newport Beach is a destination for a lot of international travelers, and some of these people have a higher propensity to smoke."